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31. ONAGRACE2E. 
many-seeded. Ovules in 2 rows in each cell. — Pedic. ax- 
illary or racemose ; fl. drooping, sometimes 5-fid, with 10 
stamens. 
Tribe II. ONAGREAE. 
The Willow-herb or Evening-primrose Tribe. 
Fruit a capsule; cells many-seeded. — Flaccid quickly wither- 
ing herbs, with rose, flesh-col. or nearly white, andy.fi. Cal.- 
lobes soon falling. 
2. Epilobium. Cal. 4-cleft shortly funnel-shaped above the 
ovary, deciduous. Pet. 4 bilobed or notched. Stam. 8. 
Style filiform. Stigma 4-cleft and cruciform or clavate. 
Caps, linear 4-celled 4-valved. Seeds bearded. — FI. rose 
or flesh-col. scentless. Mostly subaquatic herbs. 
tt3. CEnothera. Like Epilobium, but cal. tubular above 
the ovary, caps, oblong-linear (thicker and shorter) and 
seeds not bearded. — FI. mostly y., rarely purple or white, 
often fragrant ; pet. flaccid, of short duration soon wither- 
ing. Not specially aquatic herbs. 
Tribe I. Fuchsiece. 
The Fuchsia Tribe. 
1. Fuchsia L. 
ft 1. F. COCCINEA Ait. Fuchsia (the old sort). Mimos. 
Branches smooth ; young shoots with the petioles and mid- 
ribs of 1. beneath slightly hairy ; 1. opposite or in threes ovate 
or lanceolate acuminate rather remotely denticulate with red 
veins and midrib, very shortly stalked ; pedic. axillary smooth 
filiform longer than the drooping fl. ; cal. -lobes lanceolate acu- 
minate twice the length of the pet. which are closely convolute 
into a short tube ; cal. -tube cylindric constricted both at top 
and bottom, much shorter than its lobes ; stam. and style long 
exserted; stigma simple oblong-clavate. — Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 8; 
BM. t. 97 ; DC. iii. 38. F. Magellanica Lam. ex. DC. — Shr. 
per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, ccc. Forming hedges and on walls and in 
waste ground about cottages and gardens, completely natu- 
ralized, everywhere. Throughout the year. — A low bushy shr. 
:> or 4 ft. high witli dark lurid often purple-reddish foliage, 
perpetually enlivened by its numerous peculiarly elegant pen- 
dulous bright cr. II., or rather by their corolla-like deep-cr. cal. ; 
the pet. forming a dark violet tube-like cup inside, not visible 
on the bush regarded generally. Fr. shortly oblong black with 
